Category: Old Testament

Shakespeare wrote:

Blow! Blow! Thou winter wind

Thou art not so unkind

As man’s ingratitude.

Freeze, Freeze thou bitter sky,

Thou dost not bite so nigh

As benefits forgot.

Though thou the waters warp,

Thy tooth is not so sharp

As friend remembered not.

I will make of thee a great nation.
And I will bless thee.
And I will make thy name great.
And be thou a blessing;
And I will bless them that bless thee.
And I will curse him that curseth thee,
And in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed. (Genesis 12:2,3)

I will cry unto God with my voice, Even unto God with my voice; and he will give ear unto me. In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted. I remember God, and am disquieted: I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.

God says that Elijah also will be sent before the coming of Christ. The Lord Himself relates this prophecy to John the Baptist too (Matthew 11:14; compare Luke 1:17) while John says that he is not Elijah (John 1:21). This seeming contradiction is solved by the fact that His second appearing in glory for judgment will follow Christ’s rejection. So before this “great and dreadful day of Jehovah” will come Elijah will appear and announce the second coming of Christ for judgment (Revelation 11:3-6).

Zephaniah must be hailed as the Old Testament prophet who made it clear that the Prophet who would dwell among the people of his kingdom would actually be God Himself.

Make a joyful noise unto Jehovah, all ye lands. Serve Jehovah with gladness: Come before his presence with singing. Know ye that Jehovah, he is God: It is he that hath made us, and we are his; We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears

“Let not thy heart envy sinners; But be thou in the fear of Jehovah all the day long: For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off.”   Proverbs 23

Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to the men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
Ecclesiastes 9:11

The soul of the wicked desireth evil: His neighbor findeth no favor in his eyes. When the scoffer is punished, the simple is made wise; And when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

This is one of the most important passages in the Word of God, so important, in fact, that God gave the same message through two different prophets.

Zechariah

Genesis 10

Listen to Joel!

Isaiah S.E.